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Moot Retires From 4chan
vivaoporto writes Moot bids his final farewell as the administrator of the (in)famous imageboard. The full resignation letter can be read on the site blog (it's cool, it's SFW) but for those who are not brave enough to dwell in the "underbelly of the internet" here are some excerpts: "I founded 4chan eleven and a half years ago at the age of 15, and after more than a decade of service, I've decided it's time for me to move on. 4chan has faced numerous challenges... [B]ut the biggest hurdle it's had to overcome is myself. As 4chan's sole administrator, decision maker, and keeper of most of its institutional knowledge, I've come to represent an uncomfortably large single point of failure. I've spent the past two years working behind the scenes to address these challenges,... [T]he site isn't in danger of going under financially any time soon,... and while I've still been calling the shots, I've delegated many of my responsibilities to a handful of trusted volunteers, most of whom have served the site for years. That foundation will now be put to the ultimate test, as today I'm retiring as 4chan's administrator.... I look forward to one day returning to 4chan as its Admin Emeritus or just another Anonymous,... I'm humbled to have had the privilege of both founding and presiding over what is easily one of the greatest communities to ever grace the Web."
Really
I guess he's going back to reddit.
>moot is kill
>no
These are sad times.
one of the greatest communities to ever grace the Web.
lolwut
Comment received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
Meme graveyard for hipsters maybe.
[T]he site isn't in danger of going under financially any time soon
That's a real shame.
The presidential election is next year. He needs to get ready.
I never knew that 4chan was founded by a 15-year-old. Suddenly, it all make sense...
CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK.
"one of the greatest communities to ever grace the Web"
I'm gonna have to disagree with that... If by "greatest communities" you mean "biggest cesspool on the internet", then yeah.
Can they do CSS properly at 4chan?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
ayy lmao
I guess he's going back to reddit.
Something Awful actually. Hope he's got 5 bucks.
Now 4chan is run by a slew of well trained govt officials (honeypot) Who will do their best to assist you (into a cell) lawl
than /.Beta
hyuk hyuk hyuk hyuk
Moot can't triforce.
lol dongs
I know everyone loves to hate on 4chan but it is one site I enjoy visiting. Most sites are way too PC and monitored and I liked the anarchy and randomness of 4chan. I hope this doesn't bring about its demise.
After he forced 4chan to be a social justice political zone and started banning everyone on the site with the "new 6000+ rules" policy, 4chan went down hill pretty fast. Moot forgot why he made 4chan in the first place. He became the thing he claimed he hated the most. Now he's trash to Anonymous. His Nazi mods are rude, political and abusive. The posters hate him. Now he wants to run away. Good.
Sites like this are often infiltrated by CIA to monitor peoples thoughts and track users.
nothing of value was lost.
4chan is older than reddit so that might be tough.
... I don't want to kick a man while he's down and it is nice that he's not taking any parting shots at anyone as he goes. But I think the stress of running the community was that at some point he forgot the point of 4chan.
4chan was the place you could say ANYTHING. People would go on the most insane rants on that site. Say some positively evil things. And judge that as you will, there are very few places on the internet that are well known that you could get away with that sort of thing. And was sort of cathordic in its wild west post apocalypic simplicity.
4chan was chaos and anarchy. It was full of people rhetorically stuffing kittens with explosives and then offering them to people with grin. The trolling was incredible.
But there was also a savage beauty to the place.
At some point, I think Moot tried to civilize it. And that was a huge mistake. These people... were already civilized. They spent every day being civilized and polite people going throughout their lives. And 4chan was a place people could go to be wild... people would spray paint their faces blue and randomly shiv someone because that was what they felt like doing. Wrong? that sort of thing is in us at some level. Might as well let it out on an internet forum rather then elsewhere.
Anyway, lets hope either 4chan returns to what it was or 8chan picks up the slack.
Those that say "8chan has something in it I don't like"... that's the point. Its there because it can't be anywhere else. Which is what 4chan used to be.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Good fucking riddance
Regardless, 4chan left 4chan months ago when he sold out to his new-media fuck buddies, I suppose you can't go on doing it for free for ever.
You mean :10bux:
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
There's a 4chan foundation and an LLC. If moot is stepping down from it, who runs the show now? I don't see anyone discussing this.
And here is some context that I don't see anyone discussing either: moot was demanding copies of his moderators' photo IDs, and that caused a bit of a revolt. There is also a rumor that his computer was hacked and all of his moderators' IDs were leaked onto the darknet. No idea if that's true or not.
Another question, where was moot getting his shitty legal advice that led him to demand photo IDs of his mod team?
/. calls this newsworthy? 4Chan + all associated w\ it = scum. David Kalac ring a bell?
Wasn't he going to answer some questions from back in September?
I guess those questions won;t get answered now.
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"First things first -- but not necessarily in that order"
-- The Doctor, "Doctor
Now even moot is too old for 4chan. Fuck me, how time flies.
5BUX is a different site altogether.
Which iteration of "new-media" is this now, sonny? Web 2.0? AJAX? Cee dee rawms?
What's scary is now 4chan is going to be ran by people who grew up with 4chan as a constant presence in their life. If you thought the website was bad now, wait until it's ran by kids who believe "anonymous is legend!!!!!!!!" is something other than a joke.
What's 4chan?
Snacks is back?
Time to stop relaxing.
Oh wait, he still won't be old enough. Nevermind. I should have done something cool with my childhood... sigh.
Probably cause he doesn't have an account to this shitty ass website, but hey I am just taking a wild guess.
He's a waste of internet space.
tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
It's your problem now.